TA Excellence Award

The Excellence Award for Teaching Assistants emphasizes the importance that the TLSS places on teaching.

• Recognize excellence and the improvement of the students’ academic experience.
• Value the role played by TAs by improving the interactions with students.
• Give students who chose to become TAs an opportunity for a financial boost and an additional accomplishment to distinguish their resumes.

Appointment

The TLSS is seeking nomination for three awards. 
Successful candidates will each receive a $500 award. 

Eligibility criteria

The applicant must:

• Be a Teaching Assistant at the University of Ottawa;
• Have accumulated at least 250 hours of teaching assistantships before the nomination deadline;
• Still be enrolled at the University of Ottawa at the time of the award presentation; and
• Submit, in a timely fashion, the documents associated with the nomination process.

Application procedure

The nomination form must be completed by a University of Ottawa instructional staff (full or part-time professor, coordinator, etc.) or a Dean and be accompanied by two additional comments of students who can attest to the assistant’s work. The assistant, for whom a nomination form will have been completed by an instructional staff, must also complete a form describing their experiences as a teaching assistant and any Teaching Assistant related training they may have participated in.

Please note that teaching assistants can be nominated more than once over the years.

• Nomination deadline: May 15, 2026 at 4 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)

• Terms of reference
• Instructions for preparing a nomination package
• Link to the Nomination Form (to be completed by a University of Ottawa instructional staff)
• Link to the Descriptive Form (to be completed by the nominated teaching assistant)

For additional information, please contact the TLSS at saea-tlss@uOttawa.ca or by phone at 613-562-5300.